Believe or not, but the guy has found a way to restore AD *hallelujah*
It's not my problem to trust the backup or not... Not that your point isn't a good one, but I was called for this while the guy was onsite. It is his client and his responsability, not mine.
Secondly there is just 1 server... Not even Exchange on it, but some kinda strange tool for emailing.
So he managed to get AD back (using a backup from begin April) and I simply advised him to migrate the server and to do a decent migration. Because the issues he encountered are in fact quiet stupid. The server has been installed long time ago by somebody else. Due circumstances he has now the contract for maintenance of that server, but the client wouldn't pay a migration to a new one so you could have a nice clean install W2K3. During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the server started crashing during Automatic Updates, resulting in a corrupt AD.
He lost (and no, I'm not joking) 8 hours in order to gain access in "Directory Services Restore Mode"....... This because he didn't do the actual install and didn't know the account. Then problems with the backups, totally unaware of the config, never done tests, and so on and so on.
So my conclusion: not only the client has learned an important lesson, he did also :-)
Many thanks for all your thoughts!
Bart
On 4/23/06, Al Mulnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Another thing to consider would be whether or not you really want to
recover it from a backup that may or may not be trusted. At this
point, you might have some second thoughts about that.
As long as there are more DC's, recovery might consist of getting rid
of the corrupted DC, fix the problem, and then repromote (IFM if low
bandwidth concerns, might be an option).
Trusting the backup in this case seems risky.
My $0.04 worth.
On 4/22/06, Paessens, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Recoverying the AD will depend of the way how you perform a backup the AD.
> For example Using NTBackup to create a system state backup on disk and then
> backup these on tape with Veritas.
> Or Performing this backup directly with Veritas.
>
> Best is to find out what is the items backup currently and react with these
> knowledge.
>
> Daniel
> ________________________________
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> Bart Van den Wyngaert
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:21
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> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Somebody experience with recovery AD with Veritas
> (W2K)
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of
> Bart Van den Wyngaert
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:21
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Somebody experience with recovery AD with Veritas
> (W2K)
>
>
> I made already the request to perform an inventory when booted into
> Directory Services Restore Mode because I suspect that there are issues in
> that direction. Personally I never did a disaster or AD recovery with
> Veritas and I'm not familiar with the configuration locally.
>
> We'll see what happens, if the guys can read the docs properly I just
> sent...
>
>
> On 4/21/06, Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > in google I found:
> >
> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-05,GGLG:en&q=Physical+volume+library+media+is+not+found
> > does that help?
> > jorge
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
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> den Wyngaert
> > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:59
> > To: ActiveDir
> > Subject: [ActiveDir] Somebody experience with recovery AD with Veritas
> (W2K)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does somebody has experience with recovery AD with Veritas on a W2K DC?
> >
> > Reason is that a collegue of mine is on a site where the AD has become
> corrupt, but there are problems with restoring system state using Veritas.
> Error message is "Physical volume library media is not found."
> >
> > The support documentation on the Veritas website doesn't really help us
> further, we're still stuck there. Additionally this is a site of which we
> don't have docs :-( Making the job real hard for us...
> >
> > Any tips, suggestions, etc. are welcome!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Bart
> >
> >
> >
> >
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